Assembly can move in a quarter. Finishing lines take years.
Between Windsor and Kitchener sits the densest concentration of precision metalwork in the country. It was built for the auto industry, and it survived by doing everything else too.
Where it shows up
Appliance housings, wood stoves, small tools, cookware, bicycle frames, furniture hardware. Almost none of it is branded as Ontario-made, which is why buyers assume the category is gone.
The test that works
Ask where the part is finished, not where it is assembled. Assembly can move in a quarter; finishing lines take years to build and rarely leave quietly.
What to buy first
Start with the thing you will keep for twenty years. Ontario is strongest where tolerance matters and weakest where fashion does.